Japanese female beauty practices and ideals are a cultural set of standards in relevance to human physical appearance and aesthetics. Distinctive features...

In her article "Female Bodily Aesthetics, Politics, and Feminine Ideals of Beauty," Eva Kit Wah Man articulates how Confucianism and Taoism played essential...

feminine beauty ideal traits include but are not limited to: female body shape, facial feature, skin tones, height, clothing style, hairstyle and body weight...

transform themselves into socially constructed beauty. Adrian notes that female beauty standards and practices in Taiwan are quite different from those found...

C-beauty, or Chinese beauty is an umbrella term encompassing contemporary beauty products, practises, and ideals originating from China. China has the...

of beauty standards in society. A study using Chinese immigrants and Hispanic, Black and White American citizens found that their ideals of female beauty...

figure of a Japanese woman is generally fragile and petite. Japanese beauty ideals favor small features and narrow faces. Big eyes are admired, especially...

non-Western countries. The influence on beauty ideals across the globe varies by region, with Eurocentric ideals having a relatively strong impact in South...

and men [...] both the antithesis and the antecedent of adult masculinity". The bishōnen typically has the same traits as idealized female beauties in...

cosmetics industry in Japan. While there are in each culture many different ideas about what beauty is, some prominent ideals in Japanese culture include hairlessness...

beauty ideals, as there may be a large change in an individual's sexual capital.[citation needed] Sexual capital can be present in both secular and religious...

body image emphasizes the role of cultural ideals in the formation of an individual's body image. American ideals for women are unrealistic based upon a comparison...

ideals of beauty are closely linked. There is a cultural norm in western societies to keep the vulva covered and concealed in public, to hide it and avoid...

the mourning cloak in North America and the Camberwell beauty in Britain, is a large butterfly native to Eurasia and North America. The immature form of...

(Japanese: 株式会社資生堂, Hepburn: Kabushiki gaisha Shiseidō, pronounced [ɕiseꜜːdoː]) is a Japanese multinational cosmetic company founded in Tokyo, Japan in...

and 75% female).[citation needed] Gender inequality in South Korea is largely rooted in the country's Confucian ideals and has been perpetuated and deepened...

considered a status symbol and a mark of feminine beauty. However, foot binding was a painful practice that limited the mobility of women and resulted in lifelong...

esoteric and mystical meanings became an accepted practice, such as in the Tendai and Shingon schools of Japanese Buddhism. These Japanese practices included...

known as Sleeping Beauty or Briar Rose, is a fictional character who appears in Walt Disney Productions' animated film Sleeping Beauty (1959). Originally...

encouraged women of all ages and body types to take up the style. The 1970s saw the rise of the lean ideal of female body and figures like Cheryl Tiegs....

PMID 27921861. "Health and beauty: vaginal practices: Indonesia (Yogyakarta), Mozambique (Tete), South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal), and Thailand (Chonburi)"...

(2003). "Overview of Japanese Cosmetics and a History of Japanese Beauty to the Edo Period". The Emerging Monoculture: Assimilation and the "model Minority"...

focused more on political activism and pushing the beauty ideals away, lipstick feminism embraced both beauty standards and political activisms. The history...

state and private religious practices and magic. Sexuality was an important category of Roman religious thought. The complement of male and female was vital...

of the female nude was represented. Derived from the Renaissance ideal of feminine beauty, the image of the female body was created by men and for a male...

Scenic Beauty, Special Historic Sites and Special Natural Monuments History of the domestic sheep Portals: Japan Mammals Japanese serow (Japanese: ニホンカモシカ...

critics to denote a woman who was promiscuous, shallow, and unfilial, the opposite of Meiji Japan's ideals of ryōsai kenbo. Despite this members of Seitō, a...

copied Rajput practices, and transformed sati ideologically from the 'brave woman' into the 'good woman'. From those Brahmins, the practice spread to other...

(batok, which was also a mark of status and beauty), genital piercings, circumcision, and ear plugs. Similar practices have also been documented among the...

variety of often erotic practices or roleplaying involving bondage, discipline, dominance and submission, sadomasochism, and other related interpersonal...